If it's cliche business jargon, consider what you're saying

Rob Burgess, the CEO of Macromedia, is the most unlikely revolutionary. And yet it may very well be this mild mannered Canadian that may ultimately prove to be the biggest threat to Microsoft on the planet today.

Virtualization is all the rage these days as IT organizations now routinely look for ways to optimize both workstation and server hardware, And nobody has benefited more from that trend than the folks at VMware, which was were scooped up last year by EMC for $635 million.

Every now and again you run into somebody at a company that just seems to get it a little bit more than everybody else. In the case of Veritas, that person may very well be Matt Fairbanks, the company's director of technical marketing.

Got a call from Microsoft yesterday. Seems the channel executive management team was eager to get in front of any negative news surrounding the implementation of one of the largest channel reorganizations in the company's history.